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The Rohingya are often described as "the world's most persecuted minority". Dhaka, which initially tried to block the Rohingya from entering, said Monday it would start registering all new arrivals. Tension has always been high between the Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists, leading to bloody rioting in 2012. Red Cross organizations are scaling up their operations in Rakhine after the United Nations had to suspend activities there following government suggestions that its agency had ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a press conference on Tuesday that he "condemns" North Korea's recent missile tests as "provocative", but that he foresees a "global catastrophe" if any path but diplomacy is pursued as a deterrent to Pyongyang's atomic ambitions, DW reports."Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it's a dead end", he said, according to state broadcaster Russia Today.

McMaster and his disaster readiness team on Sunday offered updates about Irma, which hit Florida but wasn't expected to directly cross SC. "There's no need to put yourself, your families, or our first responders at risk", McMaster said. The utility company said there are about 44,000 customers in the state without power. SCE&G, the state's electric cooperatives, and Duke Power workers are on the ground working to restore power.

In the Tampa-St. Petersburg market, 43.5% of stations are out of gas. After impacting the eastern coast of Florida, Irma is expected to shift to Georgia , South Carolina and North Carolina - states famous for cotton, grain and livestock, as per CNBC .

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Jose has grown into a Category 2 storm, and it threatens some of the same islands ravaged just days ago by Hurricane Irma . Katia is expected to remain offshore through most of Friday, then turn southwest and make landfall in Mexico on the coast of the southeastern state of Veracruz late Friday night.

The NATO military alliance is calling for worldwide pressure to be ratcheted up against North Korea following its latest nuclear test. Seoul has hardened its stance against Pyongyang after its torrent of weapons tests, the latest a detonation Sunday of what North Korea said was a thermonuclear weapon built for missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

On Friday, the United Nations reported 270,000 Rohingyas had fled Myanmar for Bangladesh but by early Saturday another 20,000 had arrived. He said Myanmar's security operation in the Rakhine state "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

With sustained winds of 65 mph and centered about 70 miles east of Tallahassee, Irma is carrying its fierce winds and battering rain over southern Georgia . "Meaning they (come) on shore, pushing water up onto the beaches". Most of Florida and parts of Georgia were under tornado watches Sunday as the hurricane's destructive core powered its way into Florida's Gulf Coast, and tornado warnings followed.

Virgin Islands. Hurricane Irma has already left more than 20 people dead in its wake across the Caribbean. Christie also signed an administrative order temporarily waiving both the International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) and the International Registration Plan (IRP) requirements for commercial vehicles traveling to the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma as part of disaster relief.

In the statement , Police Chief Rick Maglione warned residents that going to jail for the sneakers is "a fairly bad life choice". The same group then looted a Footlocker and CashAmerica Pawn Store in the same area, WPLG reported . One of the teenagers was shot and injured by an appointee, the sheriff's office said. St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken J. Mascara said after the incident: "I have said over and over that we will not tolerate looting or price gouging".